The culture of expressive individualism was sparked in the 1950’s as a contrast to the collective conformity of that era. Highly regulated and individually constraining individual sports forms were weakened for some people by the individualized nature of contemporary society. The 1960’s and 70’s produced a large amount of youth based alternative sports cultures that wanted to provide alternatives to traditional, highly regulated achievement based sports forms. In 1978 Bourdieu described “Californian sports” as being creative, athlete- centered, noncompetitive unregulated and an expression of youthful alternative physicality (Bourdieu 1978). These eras helped advance the creative, individual contemporary sporting subculture.
In today’s society, there are norms that are expressed and followed by the majority of the population. Not everyone follows these mainstream cultural norms there are subcultures where groups of people have their own distinct culture that distinguishes them from the dominant culture. Different subcultures exist like sporting subcultures. Many modern day sports are an alternative to the disciplining of traditional sporting activities. Disciplinary sporting’s function is to discipline the mind and body according to the rules and requirements of modern capitalist society. Alternative sporting subcultures …show more content…
A risk sports sub-culture can be found in rock climbing. An experiment performed by West & Allin wanted to examine what means are attached to risk in order to analyze the relationship between risk-taking and risk management. They identified that subcultural insiders focused on managing and controlling risk. The insiders wanted to contrast their aptitude to control risk when climbing with the out- of control risks found in daily everyday life (West & Allin
In today’s society, there are norms that are expressed and followed by the majority of the population. Not everyone follows these mainstream cultural norms there are subcultures where groups of people have their own distinct culture that distinguishes them from the dominant culture. Different subcultures exist like sporting subcultures. Many modern day sports are an alternative to the disciplining of traditional sporting activities. Disciplinary sporting’s function is to discipline the mind and body according to the rules and requirements of modern capitalist society. Alternative sporting subcultures …show more content…
A risk sports sub-culture can be found in rock climbing. An experiment performed by West & Allin wanted to examine what means are attached to risk in order to analyze the relationship between risk-taking and risk management. They identified that subcultural insiders focused on managing and controlling risk. The insiders wanted to contrast their aptitude to control risk when climbing with the out- of control risks found in daily everyday life (West & Allin